Francesca Biasetton started working as a fashion illustrator. She studied calligraphy in England, Belgium, Italy, and Germany and joined the Associazione Calligrafica Italiana (Italian Calligraphic Society) in 1991 – the year of its founding. Having studied a number of formal alphabets, she has since dedicated herself to the more expressive forms of calligraphy, cursive scripts in particular.Her works are part of the collection of the Berlin Academy of Art (Berlin Sammlung Kalligraphie).
She wrote the titles for the film La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano (The Legend of 1900) directed by Giuseppe Tornatore.

Her theatre debut has been with Abbecedario, where her images, created live, accompany a series of stories on the alphabet. She also illustrated the eponymous book, winner of the 2003 Andersen Prize for the best art book and the 2004 Stregagatto Prize for the best published work.

Invited to Teheran, she worked with the Iranian artist Golnaz Fathi.

Among her areas of expertise: logotype; payoff; lettering for movies, video and books; decoration of walls, furniture, fabrics and ceramic; writing on body; live writing for events, fashion shows, weddings; workshops and seminars; illustrations for book-covers, publishing, advertising, brochure.

Her artisitic production is characterized by a peculiar research on sign and the asemic writing.

Since 2011 she is the president of Associazione Calligrafica Italiana (Italian Calligraphic Society). Her book on handwriting “La bellezza del segno – Elogio della scrittura a mano” has been published in 2018 by Editori Laterza.